[Tlhingan-hol] A demonstration of aspect we can all follow

[David Trimboli]

On 6/7/2012 4:08 PM, Qov wrote:
>
> At 13:49 '?????' 6/7/2012, you wrote:
>> If I wanted to indicate a never-ending interrogation session, -taH
>> or -lI' would have been needed, but then it would have been an
>> interrogation whose flow in time was being described as continuous,
>>  rather than any other the other meanings.
>
> I'm not sure that it has to be never ending, just that what is being
>  described is the session, not its completion.

jIQochbe'.

> jaj Hoch qama' vIyu'lI'. Hoch De' vISuqta' 'e' wuqDI' ra'wI'wI',
> qama' vIHoHta' 'ej 'uQ vISopmeH jImejpu'.
>
> DaparHa''a'?

Everything except possibly the {vISuqta'}. If you meant to say "When my 
commander decided that I had acquired all the information," then you're 
employing past perfect tense. If you mean something like "When my 
commander decided that I had started and completed acquiring all the 
information," then I'd accept it, although it seems a strange way to say it.

I'm not sure what the alternative is, though.

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